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By Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88 a.pandey@ibtimes.com on June 27 2015 2:39 AM EDT Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid announced on Saturday that authorities would shut down 80 mosques in the country accused of promoting terrorism. Pictured: A broken glass window of the Imperiale Marhaba hotel after a gunman opened fire at the beachside hotel in…

March 15, 2015: Defectors and captured al Shabaab members report that that group’s leaders are dismayed that other Islamic terror groups like ISIL (al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant) in Syria and Boko Haram in Nigeria are crowding al Shabaab out of the media. Al Shabaab needs that media attention for fund raising and…

The 43-year-old British photographer who was taken hostage in Syria in July 2012 touts the militant group’s rule over Mosul – Iraq‘s second-largest city with more than 2 million people. In the video the captive is forced to refute several media reports of mass murders and repeated human rights violations as he tours a local…

Jeff Weyers of iBRABO, a Canadian open source intelligence site, spoke to the Vancouver Observer about open source security intelligence, and about Canadian examples being referenced in ISIS propaganda. Jenny Uechi Jan 3rd, 2015 An Ontario-based open source intelligence research group, iBRABO, exposed a New Zealand ISIS fighter who was unwittingly broadcasting his location in Syria on twitter. Mark…

December 12, 2014 at 15:00 Posted by inss On November 13, 2014 the Treasury of the Islamic State organization (IS) announced its intention to mint a first series of coins to be used in the territory under its control. For the leaders of IS, this move has both symbolic and economic meaning. Not only does…

Image: SERA Peter Kassig By The Associated Press The White House says the U.S. intelligence community is working to determine the authenticity of a video that purports to show that Islamic State militants have beheaded American aid worker Peter Kassig. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan says that if the video is authentic, the White…

Updated by Zack Beauchamp on September 17, 2014, 1:10 p.m. ET @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com An image of an ISIS fighter with the group’s flag, taken from a YouTube video uploaded by ISIS. (ISIS/YouTube) Don’t miss stories. Follow Vox! The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria…wait. Stop. I was going to start describing it, but I…

BY David Francis AUGUST 20, 2014 – 07:18 PM Evidence is mounting that the man who executed American journalist James Foley is a British national fighting under the banner of the Islamic State. According to BBC Radio, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said that the masked man in the video was likely a British citizen.…